Basket



' (No Modal.)

J. W'. TAYLOR.

BASKET.

Patented Peb.16,1897.

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JOHN \V. TAYLOR, OF BUDA, TEXAS` BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,151, dated February 16, 1897.

Apolication filed June 1S, 1896.

i To all whom, it may concern:

Serial No. 595,466. (No model.)

ing-wire is interwoven in and out with the 5o Be it known that I, JOHN 1V. TAYLOR, a rib-wires and may, if preferred, be coiled citizen of the United States, residing at'Buda, around the same at its points of intersection in the county of Hays and State of Texas, have therewith to secure greater stiffness.

5 invented a new anduseful Basket, of which The advantage of the construction above the following is a specification. described resides in the fact of the strength 55 My invention relates to a produce-basket of the article and the facility with which it adapted for handling vegetables, fruits, gromay be grasped, the spaces between the rib ceries, seed-cotton, lint-cotton, and the like, and filling wires being such as to provide the lo the-object in view being to provide a simple, necessary handholds without special handles.

strong, and efficient metallic basket of sufti- When bent out of shape, the improved basket 6o cient lightness to be handled with facility. may be readily returned to its original con- Further objects and advantages of this indition without fracture, and being of `wire is vention will appear in the following dcscrippractically indestructible.

I5 .tion and the novel features thereof will be It will be understood that while the spiral particularly 'pointed out in the appended arrangement ofthe filling-wire is preferable 65 claim. v it is not indispensable and may be varied, pro- In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective vided the vsame is arranged to hold the ribview of a basket constructed in accordance Wires at the desired intervals and secure the zo with my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan same against displacement, and, further view of the saine. Fig. 3 is a central seetin'. more, that various other changes in the form, 7o Fig; el is a plan view of one of the fasteningproportion, and the minor details of construcdisks. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a slightly tion may be resorted to without departing modified form of fastening device for the confrom the spirit or sacrificing any of the ad z 5 tiguous extremities of the rib-wires. vantages of this invention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate cor- In Fig. 5 I have shown a slightly different 75 responding parts in all the figures of the drawform of fastening device, wherein the disks, ings. which are provided with seats, preferably The basket embodying myinvention is conformed by crimping, are held together by go strueted of wire, which is preferably galvanmeans of a central brad or rivet instead of the ized, and consists of a plurality of rib-wires bolt shown in the other form of the device. A` 8o 1, which extend radially from the center of plurality of additional openings are formedl the bottom and thence in an approximately in the disks near their peripheries and bevertical direction to the rim-wire 2, the contween the seats for the reception of auxiliary ;5 tiguous extremities of said rib-wires at the brads (not shown) for use when the central center of the bottom being fitted in radial bradisfoundto be insufficient to maintainthe 85 grooves or seats 3 in the upper and lower parparts with the proper pressure upon the wires. allel fastening-disks 4C, which are connected Having described my invention, what I together centrally by a bolt 5. The upper claim is 1.o extremities of the rib-wires are coiled around. A wire basket comprising a series of ribthe rim-wire 2 a number of times to give the wires extending radially outward from the 9o latter stiffness, or said rim-wire may be made center of the bottom of the basket and then of heavier material or of larger gage-wire. upward to form the sides thereof, a continu- Interlocked with the rib-wires and extendous filling-wire attached to one of the ribs near .5 ing spirally around the basket is a iillingthe center of the bottom and interwoven spiwire 6, which preferably has one of its ex rally with the rib-wires at the bottom and 95 tremities near the center of the bottom, as sides of the basket, and the clamping device shown clearly in Fig. 2, and the other exfor the ends of the rib-wires, said clamping tremity attached to the rim-wire. This filldevice comprising two plates or disks, each having a oentrally-perforated boss upon one face and a series of radial grooves extending` from the boss t0 the periphery of the disk, and a rivet passing through the central perforations and Clamping the ends of the rib- Wires between the two disks, substantially as described.

In testimony that I Claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN XV. TAYLOR.

NTtiiesses: ,Y

En. R. KANE, II. A. MGMEANS. 

